Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, from Frederick C. Durant to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence and dated 16 February 1953, is the report on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met January 14 to 18, 1953, under Dr. H. P. Robertson. It gives a history of the meetings and the panel members' comments on cases such as Tremonton and Great Falls. The panel found no direct threat to national security and recommended an educational program to strip UFOs of their special status.
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lovels in much education from enlisted personnel to command and research personnel. Relative emphasis and degree of explanation of different programs would correspond to the categories of duty (e.g., radar operators pilots; control tower operators; Ground Observer Corps personnel; and efficiencies enlisted van in other categories). This training should result in a marked reduction in reports caused by misidentification and resultant confusion. The "defining" can would result in reduction in public awareness in "flying causes" which today evokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by a media such as television, motion pictures, and popular animation. Basic of this education would be central once history which had been pertaining to these but later explained. In the case of conjuring truths, there are such forms of retaliation if the "acarol" is known. Such a program should tend to reduce the current guiltibility of the public and consequently whose susceptibility to clever hewling propaganda. The result would thus the general abhorment of Russian propaganda based on a subject with so many obvious possibilities for exploitation which infiltrate a possible Russian official policy. Members of the Rael had various questions related to the plan of each on experimental programs. In the field of largely used psychologists included with their psychology should be kept on the records and contents of the programs. In while conventions. Ex. Billing Gouwatil. (In the Tank program) was one of them. With an annual "Discussion"
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 32 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.